The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-08
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town thread mill is completed it
will be 227 feet high, the loftiest in
the United States.
1. is reported from Butte City, NJ. t.,
that tYelve-year-ola boothlack there
has $500 which he has earned deposited
in one of the city banks.
Thomas Perry walked from Teffe
Haute to Disco, distance OF hye
miles, in fifty-eight minutes on his esd
birthday He made the last mile IN
eight minutes.
Lone more sign of the economies OF
progress" SAYS the New York Times. |
..is that it is contemplated to make |
wax candles out of sngaf-cane. II
Yields cerosine, which. has high
melting point"
Thoughtless and inconsiderste
Bostonians are laughing at the En-
ciish young woman who recently, after
hearing much praise of bntierhnts,
said: .'At what season OF the year
are doughnuts ripes
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
card playing is social craze IN Lon
don, and that thousands of yonng
ladies in the city are familiar with
the mysteries OF the Jackpot poker
and other like utensils.
A Boston man who is manufacturer
of raspberry jam says that no rasp-
berrys are used in making 1t. What Is
used, it appears. are tomatoes. glucose
and hayseed, and little prepared
raspberry flavor.
The Hastings Gazete-Jouraas
sports a corncob pipe upon when
a potato has been grated. IL
is considered the rarest jewel IN tue
shop, as the pipe reduces the tuber 20 .
pasting consistency.
It is reported that the English church
establishment receives yearly in tithes
about $2O, 1000, 900. OF this $4,000. 900
goes for salaries of clergymen and the
remainder goes to hospitals, schools
church buildings, and the like.
At Burg Hill, Ohio, Charles Smith
shot blue heron at his carp pond,
and found forty-seven fish in its
stomach. From the appearance of
the carp they had just been swallowed,
and constituted only one meal for the
bird.
Under a recent decision of the North
Carolina Supreme Court Judge IN
that state has issued a warrant for the
arrest of a man for committing an
assault with deadly weapon, ito
wit. a certain vicious and largo bull
dog"
Archbishop Heiss of Milwaukee says
that of the 8. 200, 900 Roman catholics
of the United States 1000. 900 are Ger
mans. Of the eleven archbishops and
sixty bishops only one archbishop, DR..
Heiss himself. and eleven bishops are
German.
Capt A. X. Ham, a. '49er, died re-
Gently in San Jose, CAL, worth about
$4,000, 900. He was bachelor, and
occupied room in his livery stable.
His heirs are two brothers, one OF
whom lives in Oakland and the other
in Santa Cruz.
A woman in a red dress was walk
ing in the streets of Zacatecas, Mexico,
when bull, attracted by the scafle,
color rushed at her and tossed her sky.
high. She alighted on the ground. on
her hustle, on the other side of a wall,
and without injury.
While log was being sawed through
in North Michigan lumber camp the
saw cut in two ii large moecasin snake
that was encased in the heart of the
wood There was no opening al
either end of the log. and the wonder
is how the snake got there.
st. Joseph, Mo-. is expecting TO hay.
centerarian. r. Ussleton Compton
who was ninety-nine years old in May
last, has lived there for forty sever
years, and his mental and bodily yigol
warrant the belief that he will reSel
his one-hundredth birthday.
The Santa Cruz Suyf tells of an i'm
-. Il
near Capitola the other day.
measured eight feet from the tip q
its nose to the tip of its tail and it
weight is guessed by local gnesseP tt
be about one Thousand pounds.
A silk dress coat has reached Bnstar
and made tremendous sensation
among the dudes. 1t is really
handsome garment. made of heavy
corded. lusterless silk. which. at it'll,
distance. looks like the richest ofsbiacl
broadcloth. 1t is Paris fashion.
A Belmont county (Ohio) farmer re
joices in a heterogeneous collection O
freaks, consisting of a pig whose fee
are split SO as to give it the appearance
of having toes. another with thre,
ears. cat with one ear CROWN.
wrong side out, and boy with three
thumbs.
When a settler in the Northwes
territory wants to go back to Ontari,
20 be married the Canadian Pacifi,
railroad sells him matrimonial ticke
at the usual rate, and on presentin:
the return coupon and a marriages Ger
fiticate he is entitled to free transpor
4ation for his bride.
The Santa Rosa Republican tells O
ind 6r1Ir -, L.
whose 14-year-old son is confined il
the county jail, and who sent him
bible, bunch of cigarettes, a piece o
bologna sausage, and a copy of tn
Police Gazette, in order to hew off tn
ragged edges of prison life.
There is hotel in Arkansas wher
the rooms are designated by the name
of cities and states. Here. from
show this gentleman to New Orleans
take a pitcher of ice water to Mime
sofa, see what that man in Boston
wants and make fire in Chicago is
sample of what one hears in the office
P. G. Handy, the well-known Plain
well (Mich.) fruit-grower and con
ductor of singing schools, is the ownc
of q violin which he claims is $50 year
old. Mr.. Handy has owned the in
strument for forty-tnree years. 1t wa
imported by gentleman named Dens
more who once lived at Byron Center
N. Y.
They are laughing in Atlanta at
man who took opera glasses TO TIL
theatre the other evening for te frs
time. He sat in the last row of seal
of the balcony, and when he locke,
through the glasses was so astonisne,
at the apparent nearness of the sta g
that he started back and fell down til
stairway.
Farmers on the. islands opposit
Whatcom. W. I. complain. says tn
ReUeilie, that deer are SO numerous a
to constitute pest, and their orchard
and grain fields can only be protecte,
by high picket fences. Quail are ais
becoming too numerous. Orcas islam,
is especially we'll stocked with Ihes